My college soccer play too – the only injuries he had were non-sports related as a little kid – concussion from hitting his head while playing and stitches from a fall. As he got older, he always played multiple sports for fun, playing rec league basketball in college etc. Post-college, he has discovered he actually enjoys running now that it’s not conditioning for his sport and has become a serious runner.
As a family, we made some sacrifices, mostly in terms of my time, for him to pursue college recruiting. If there’d been competitive teams closer to us, we probably would have felt pressure to do more, but the closest MLS program was 3 hours away so we didn’t go down that road. Kid played four years in college, made life-long friends and memories, and walked away still loving his sport.